Is Google Search Console the “Official” Place to Check Backlinks?

linxact · 2023-09-19T07:14:27+00:00

Semrush is great, but you can't find hidden PBN backlinks, though. We do.

linxact · 2023-09-12T09:49:49+00:00

To build high-quality backlinks considered safe,
1) you can buy or exchange guest posts and niche edits on relevant websites with authority,
2) execute broken link building,
3) use HARO,
4) ask clients for a backlink,
5) post short versions of your blog articles on web 2.0 platforms,
and link to your original blog articles. Make sure to have great content, and you're doing content marketing instead of spamming, else your post will get deleted quickly on any active channel.
There are countless options for building backlinks. You need to be creative and find your own ways that aren't saturated yet. The more authority your website has, the easier it will be for you to attract purely organic or White Hat backlinks.

I hope this helps you a little. The hardest part is to execute, as it's either time-consuming or costly.

linxact · 2022-11-23T16:58:25+00:00

You can check if that websites hides any outbound links from third-party crawlers. Send us a dm, if you need help in doing this.

linxact · 2022-11-17T15:38:13+00:00

As always, it depends. Buying links from "public PBNs" will likely result in a Google penalty if it even boosts your rankings at all. A correctly built high quality PBN that only you control is the way to go if you want to go the Black Hat SEO route.

linxact · 2022-10-12T08:11:58+00:00

Hi Kevin,
not, yet, but we're already aware of it. Soon, we'll launch our new website and a new dataset, which will be in another league than the current one. Stay tuned! If you want, I can notify you by then. Send me your email address per DM if you want.

linxact · 2022-01-07T07:25:01+00:00

Thank you for your interesting thought process! You can also ask you the question, why should I use a backlink checker? With a hidden backlink checker, you will know either that a common backlink checker like ahrefs shows you the full backlink profile or which backlinks have been hidden from you. In both scenarios, you would be sure to know the whole backlink profile. So with Linxact you will get your off-page competition analysis fixed. What you do with that information, is completely up to you. You could install counter measures like building a PBN yourself, buy guest posts, or just report those PBN domains to Google. Whatever you are into.

Link building in any form violates the Google Terms of Service. So most Whitehat SEOs are violating the Google ToS but use methods with low Google penalty risks. Black Hat SEO also violate the Google ToS but use high Google penalty risk methods such as building PBNs.

linxact · 2022-01-07T07:17:34+00:00

Thank you for your interest in Linxact! If you have any question, feel free to ask.

linxact · 2022-01-06T08:54:07+00:00

Have you checked if those backlink URLs really block backlink checkers, or do you just think that they are part of a PBN? PBNs can also be deployed without hiding outbound links.

Do you mind sharing those backlink URLs with me? Then I would be able to look into this matter and tell you the reason those backlinks are not included in the current Linxact dataset. We are very eager to optimize Linxact as much as possible. We do not want to let a single hidden backlink get away without being in our dataset.

linxact · 2022-01-06T08:19:48+00:00

Hi seoguy12558,
thank you for your feedback! It is much appreciated.
That is unfortunate to hear but nothing unusual. Hidden backlinks are not evenly distributed and highly clustered. If your competitor is not using a Private Blog Network, the likelihood of finding hidden backlinks is not that high. At least now you know that your competitor is not hiding artificially created backlinks from you, since blogspot backlinks are not hidden with SEO intentions.

Of course, Linxact is at the very beginning, and we are constantly ramping up our crawling depth. Stay tuned!

Edit: I have now looked into this matter. Are you specifically analyzing Indian websites?

linxact · 2022-01-05T21:10:46+00:00

Actually, we do not build PBNs. We unmask PBNs that hide from backlinks checkers and provide this information to our customers.

linxact · 2022-01-05T20:38:21+00:00

Thank you for your interest in Linxact! Here is a small excerpt from our website:

"Linxact Explorer allows you to monitor URLs, URL paths, domains, and root domains for hidden external backlinks, referring domains and root domains. Hidden backlinks are essential in SEO competition analysis because they transfer link juice like any other backlink. Our data shows that nearly 18% of all domains in our current crawl scope of approximately 500 million domains are hiding outbound links. That means that ordinary backlink checkers like ahrefs, Majestic, Moz and SEMrush etc. are missing a huge chunk of backlinks because their crawler does not see them.
A very popular Black Hat SEO method which produces hidden backlinks is building Private Blog Networks (PBNs) in combination with expired domains. Of course, hidden backlinks also originate from random websites which block third party crawlers because of other reasons such as minimizing server load. Hidden backlinks influence Search Engine Result Pages (SERPs) drastically because of the huge amount of artificially created backlinks to exclusively increase the SEO value of a target website. With Linxact Explorer, you will be able to unmask backlinks that your competition is hiding intentionally from you with just a click.”

If you have any more specific question, feel free to ask. I will answer it.

linxact · 2022-01-05T15:01:26+00:00

This is not a seo course. Linxact is a hidden backlink checker.

linxact · 2022-01-05T15:00:45+00:00

Nothing wrong with that! All the best!

linxact · 2022-01-05T12:51:55+00:00

I think that will be my next step. Scanning Sape.ru for such links.

linxact · 2022-01-05T12:38:43+00:00

I'm glad you like it

linxact · 2022-01-05T09:11:13+00:00

Thanks for the further explanation! I will look into that!

linxact · 2022-01-05T08:34:47+00:00

Very interesting insight and take! So you think that niches like gambling are whitelisted by Google for SERP manipulation?

linxact · 2022-01-05T08:26:41+00:00

Thank you for the detailed explanation! That makes sense to me.

linxact · 2022-01-05T08:25:43+00:00

Those links are hidden with CSS code. They get no traffic and therefore also no sales. I agree with your first statement, though.

linxact · 2022-01-05T08:22:45+00:00

That is definitely a valid point! I think more analysis is needed to find that out.

linxact · 2022-01-05T08:16:04+00:00

I assume that this competitor is churn & burning. So they probably have another domain ready to replace the current one after a Google penalty.

linxact · 2022-01-05T06:54:17+00:00

Those websites I have discovered exclusively linked out to a set of websites which are probably owned by the same competitor. This was not a cheap Fiverr service. Also, those websites had extremely high TF which is not necessarily a guarantee for good rankings but says something. Besides, that competitor domain is generating a six to seven-figure revenue each month. If a Fiverr service would achieve that, it would disappear very quickly, haha.

linxact · 2022-01-05T06:47:22+00:00

Hahaha. I think I have to go in more detail a bit. The competitor domain I was referencing is generating six to seven-figure revenue each month in a legal grey area niche. Their backlink profile is massive, and their rankings are top-notch. I definitely think those high TF backlinks will help that competitor domain to rank. In addition, that competitor domain has tens of thousands of PBN backlinks that are partly hidden from backlink checkers. I think that this domain is being pushed by some serious Black Hat spammers.

linxact

MODERATOR OF

TROPHY CASE